Commercial Cleaning · Whole Buildings and Common Parts · UK-wide
Commercial Cleaning Services for Whole Buildings
Most quotes price the floors people work on and stop there. Commercial cleaning services here cover the whole building, including the lobby, the lift, the stairwell and the bin store, from £20 per cleaner per hour excluding VAT.
A site visit takes about fifteen minutes and produces a written proposal within 24 hours. Quotes are free and carry no obligation.
Commercial Cleaning Services
150 Cleaners, 100 Customers, Every Single Day
Contract commercial cleaning services from Double Check Security Group cover business premises across the UK, and have done since 1998. A workforce of around 150 people serves more than 100 customer sites daily.
Cleaners are DBS checked and screened to BS 7858. Rates run from £20 to £30 per cleaner per hour, excluding VAT.
- 1998
- Cleaning UK business premises since
- 150
- Cleaners across the group
- 100+
- Customer sites served every day
- £20 to £30
- Per cleaner per hour, excluding VAT
What the Contract Covers
Every Area Named, Including the Ones Nobody Claims
A business premises cleaning specification should name each area in writing, because anything left unnamed turns into an argument in month three.
- Work floors
- Washrooms
- Kitchens and break areas
- Meeting rooms
- Reception
- Circulation space
Daily work handles what people see
Floors, desks, bins, glass and touchpoints such as door handles, lift buttons and stair rails.
Washrooms are disinfected and restocked on the same visit, so consumables do not run out before someone reports them.
Who supplies and pays for those consumables is written into the contract rather than assumed, because it is one of the most common reasons two quotes that look alike are not comparable.
Periodic work is scheduled alongside the daily round
Hard floors and carpets need stripping, sealing or extraction on a cycle.
Windows, vents and light fittings hold dust that daily cleaning never reaches.
Each item is priced inside the same contract, so nothing arrives as a surprise invoice.
Multi-Tenant and Mixed-Use Premises
Common Parts Cleaning in Multi-Tenant Buildings
Common parts cleaning covers the shared areas of a multi-tenant building, which usually means the main lobby, reception, corridors, stairwells, lifts and shared washrooms.
Those are the spaces every occupier sees and no single occupier owns, which is why they need naming more carefully than anything behind a tenant's own door. Writing the shared areas down by name removes a whole category of dispute.
Premises Types
Which Specification Fits Your Type of Premises?
Building type decides the specification more than square footage does. Four sectors carry their own pages, each with the detail that sector needs.
Corporate, serviced and shared workspaces
Covered by workplace and office cleaning, which is where corporate commercial cleaning contracts usually sit.
Shop floors that stay open through the clean
Cleaning for shops and stores covers shop floors, fitting rooms and entrances that stay open through the clean.
Production areas, racking and hard floors
Factory and warehouse cleaning covers production areas, racking and hard floors under machinery.
Hotels, venues, healthcare sites and schools
Each covered from the cleaning hub above, on the same specification discipline. Small business cleaning services run the same way, at a smaller scale and a shorter round.
- London and the South East
- The Midlands
- The North
- Wales
- Scotland
- Northern Ireland
Business cleaning services for a single unit and a full-building contract are priced the same way, by hours and frequency rather than by a package. Cleaning and security can be bought together, since both are delivered in-house here rather than subcontracted, and multi-site clients hold one specification and one point of contact across the portfolio.
Evidence and Accreditation
Attendance Records an Auditor Can Read
Delivery is proved by a record, not by a reassurance.
Cleaners clock in and out through a GPS-tracked time and attendance system, which produces a log of who was on site and for how long.
That record does more work in a service charge building than anywhere else
Reconciliations have to be issued within four months of the service charge year end, and tenants paying into the charge can ask what their money bought.
A contractor who cannot produce an attendance log creates a problem for the managing agent, not only for themselves. The log answers the question directly, night by night.
- Who was on site
- For how long
- On which nights
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Monthly quality audits against the written specification
Supervisors run the audits, so the standard is checked against the same document the contract was priced from rather than a general impression.
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A named account manager, not a call centre
Requests are handled directly by a named account manager rather than routed through a call centre.
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Absence cover is written into the specification
Holiday and sickness are where most cleaning contracts quietly fail, so cover is part of the written specification rather than an assumption.
The Accreditations Buyers Check
BICSc, ISO 9001 and SafeContractor Sit Behind the Cleaning Operation
Three accreditations sit behind the cleaning operation. The SIA Approved Contractor Scheme is held on the security side, so it is not a cleaning accreditation and is not presented as one.
Why BICSc is the one buyers ask for by name
It is the training and standards body named in tender documents, so holding it keeps you eligible for contracts that specify it.
Client relationships across the group
- Liberty
- Ralph Lauren
- The Ned
- Sadler's Wells
- Old Spitalfields Market
- Montagu Evans
- Wandsworth Council
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Client feedback
What Our Commercial Cleaning Clients Say
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Vetting and Building Access
Who Holds Access to Every Tenant's Floor?
Commercial cleaners in a multi-let building hold access to more of the property than almost anyone else, often while it is empty.
Screening therefore matters more here than in a single-occupier office.
BS 7858 goes considerably further than a reference check
- Identity and address history verified
- Right to work confirmed
- Five years of activity history, with every gap explained
- Criminal record check
- Financial probity examined
Most cleaning companies say their staff are vetted, few name the standard
Cleaners here are DBS checked and screened to BS 7858, the British Standard covering screening of individuals working in a secure environment.
Naming the standard is what makes the claim checkable, because it sets out exactly what has to be verified and how far back.
This is a security business as well as a cleaning one
Organisations joining the SIA Approved Contractor Scheme have to demonstrate adherence to BS 7858, and the scheme is held here for guarding and door supervision.
That same screening discipline applies to the cleaning teams.
Access in a shared building is never one set of keys
Each demise has its own rules, and mobilisation goes wrong when a contractor assumes a single arrangement covers everything.
Access is mapped demise by demise before the first clean.
All arrive uniformed with photographic identification
Switching Provider
Changing Cleaners Without Losing a Single Night
Switching provider is a scheduling exercise, not a gap in service.
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01 Check your notice period
UK cleaning agreements commonly run anywhere from twelve months to five years with thirty to ninety day notice, and buyers are routinely advised to check whether the supplier can give notice faster than the client can.
Ask for both figures in writing before comparing two quotes, because a low monthly fee on a five year term is a different product to the same fee on twelve months. Term and notice are stated in the proposal here rather than buried in terms and conditions.
- Contract length
- Notice period
- Whose notice is shorter
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02 TUPE transfer
Where your existing cleaners are employed on the current contract, TUPE usually applies, which means their employment transfers rather than ending.
Those staff are re-vetted, retrained on the new specification and brought onto the same terms as the rest of the workforce, so the building keeps people who already know it. If the mechanics help, here is who employs the cleaners after a handover.
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03 Managed handover
A managed handover runs four to six weeks from decision to first clean, which makes the notice period on your current agreement the first thing worth checking.
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04 The proposal states four things
Nothing is quoted as a single monthly figure with no working behind it.
- The areas covered
- The frequency and hours for each
- The price broken down by area
- The mobilisation date
Areas Covered
Where Do We Provide Commercial Cleaning?
Coverage runs UK-wide, across England, Scotland and Wales. Single buildings, multi-tenant sites and multi-site portfolios all sit inside the same coverage, with one specification and one point of contact.
Vetted, supervised teams for single-site and multi-site buildings.
How UK-wide cover works
Wherever the building sits, we can put a vetted, directly employed team on site, supervised and covered when someone is off sick.
Not sure whether we cover your building's location? Get in touch. We can confirm cover for your city or region before you book.
Site surveys are free, with no obligation to proceed.
Common questions
Seven Questions Buyers Ask Before Tendering
Clear answers on cost, what a contract covers, deep clean frequency, vetting, common parts and out-of-hours access.
020 3794 8182
How much does a commercial cleaning service cost?
Commercial cleaning services here run from £20 to £30 per cleaner per hour, excluding VAT, with most contracts settling into a fixed monthly fee after a site visit. Size, frequency, timing and how much of the building is in scope all move the figure.
What is the difference between janitorial services and commercial cleaning?
Janitorial work is the day-to-day round, meaning bins, surfaces, floors and washroom restocking, usually delivered around operating hours. Commercial cleaning is the wider term, covering that daily round plus periodic work such as floor treatment, high-level cleaning and deep cleans. Both sit inside one contract here.
What does a commercial cleaner do?
A commercial cleaner works to a written specification covering named areas of a business premises, on an agreed frequency. Typical duties are floors, desks, glass, bins, touchpoint sanitising, washroom cleaning and consumable restocking, with periodic tasks scheduled separately.
How often should commercial premises be deep cleaned?
Most premises need a deep clean between two and four times a year, with high-footfall areas such as shared washrooms and entrances needing more. Frequency depends on footfall, sector and how heavily the daily round is specified. It is scheduled inside the contract rather than quoted as an emergency.
Are your cleaners DBS checked?
Yes. Cleaners hold a DBS check and are additionally screened to BS 7858, which verifies five years of activity history, identity, address history, right to work and financial probity. Documentation can be provided for your own compliance records.
Can you clean only the common parts of a multi-let building?
Yes. Common parts contracts covering lobbies, corridors, lifts, stairwells and shared washrooms are quoted separately from tenant demises, which keeps the service charge recharge clean and easy to reconcile.
Do you clean outside business hours?
Yes. Early mornings, evenings, overnight and weekends are all available, and shared buildings often need a mix, with a daytime presence in the lobby and an overnight round on the floors above. Out-of-hours premiums are stated in the proposal rather than added later.
Request a call back about your commercial cleaning requirements.
Commercial Cleaning · Whole Buildings · UK-wide
Ask for the Specification Before You Ask the Price
A fifteen minute walk round produces a proposal within 24 hours, priced against your building rather than an average. Free survey, free quote, no obligation, and the term and notice period stated in writing.
020 3794 8182Commercial Cleaning · Whole Buildings · UK-wide
Ask for the Specification Before You Ask the Price
A fifteen minute walk round produces a proposal within 24 hours, priced against your building rather than an average. Free survey, free quote, no obligation, and the term and notice period stated in writing.
020 3794 8182